Services of The Center For Rural Planning

CRP provides the following assistance to communities:

• Helping communities define and determine their planning needs and possibilities for community based planning, focusing on building communities and leadership while developing community plans.

• Locating grant monies and other resources for community planning.

• Providing planning expertise as communities work through their planning process.

• Assisting with conflict resolution that is part of every aspect of a diverse, rural community by providing alternative ways to resolve land use conflicts.

• Providing training in community planning as well as sharing tools for effective management of change in rural communities.

• Continuing research in community based planning to develop new tools and strategies for managing change in rural communities and making those tools accessible and useable for citizens.

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Population and Community Served

CRP focuses on rural communities, primarily Townships, counties and small cities in Minnesota. CRP's focus is on increasing each community's social capital through providing a process whereby individual citizens can help create their community, develop their own leadership skills, and make connections with each other that can help bridge the gaps that divide communities.